What happened? a friend asked. I didn't know what to say. Hani died. Hani Shukrallah. But who was Hani to me, and who was I to him? One answer is: former colleagues. Former friends. But saying that is the same as saying nothing.
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What happened? a friend asked. I didn't know what to say. Hani died. Hani Shukrallah. But who was Hani to me, and who was I to him? One answer is: former colleagues. Former friends. But saying that is the same as saying nothing.
I began working at (...)
As the Israeli army occupies Bethlehem and international opposition to the war on the Palestinians takes to the streets, some protestors have gone a step further. They spoke to Pascale Ghazaleh from behind the barricades
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Suzanne El-Masri
A talent for simplicity
Head, heart and hands: a study in contrasts, tending toward equilibrium
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"You might think she's talking about jewellery," says one of Suzanne El-Masri's friends, "but in fact, what (...)
Just what is going on at Guantanamo Bay? Pascale Ghazaleh finds out why Camp X-Ray is only as transparent as the US military wants it to be
Long ago, before the minefields were sown and the cages built, Guantanamo Bay must have been a pleasant (...)
Pascale Ghazaleh wonders why, in 2001, politics was found guilty of indecent exposure
This was a year of war: war in Palestine, war in Afghanistan, war on terrorism, war on dissent. It was a year of profound economic crisis, a year when fear and (...)
E-spionage is recruiting strange allies, and claiming unexpected victims. Pascale Ghazaleh reports
"Terrorism," said George W Bush last week in an address to the naval forces on board the USS Enterprise, "is an ideology that respects no boundary of (...)
Ahdaf Soueif:
Different readings
The most dramatic interpretations, too, must draw on life
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What if it were true? Not just the "string of now- taken-for-granted pearls" around her neck: those are true enough. But the flat (...)
Malak Zaalouk:
Making it work
If children won't go to school -- well, the schools will just have to go to them. Meet the woman who believes in revolution, and then helps bring it about
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It is difficult, in Malak Zaalouk's (...)
Pascale Ghazaleh gazes through bulletproof glass
Advocates of Palestinian rights may be feeling a little queasy these days, as if the rug has been pulled out from under them. What, exactly, is going on? First there was the BBC Panorama programme The (...)
Hani Shenouda:
In concert
The day the music died? He doesn't remember, because only the future counts
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The song goes something like this: "Girls, please don't believe that marriage is a breeze, and girls, if we speak (...)
Processions aren't what they used to be. Pascale Ghazaleh finds the chaos at the heart
On the Great Night of Mulid Al-Nabi, celebrated last week, crowds of people gathered near the Mosque of Al-Hussein and prepared to cross what was once all there (...)
photo: Randa Shaath
Golo:
Laughing in silence
In the theatre of the absurd, he is on stage with the audience
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"It has to be dark for the bed-bugs to come out," someone says, stretching out on the narrow cot. "But if they (...)
Tarek Naga:
Living rooms
Building to elevate the human spirit -- but where does the kitchen go?
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photo: Mohamed Mos'ad
The blurb does not make it into the top ten list of most convincing things I've ever read: "Tarek (...)
If it works, why fix it? Pascale Ghazaleh hears the different sides of the restoration debate, and finds no peace within the walls of a mosque as old as the millennium
Up here, pausing for breath a little way up the minaret, it is easy to think one (...)
Pascale Ghazaleh picks her way through rubble in search of the missing link
BRIDGES AND CROWNS: clockwise from top, a rare shot of Abul-Ela Bridge open(Cairo Postcard Fund, courtesy of Pierre Sioufi); bits and pieces; awaiting reassembly
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By Pascale Ghazaleh
A well-known Arabic proverb states that al-nadhafa min al-iman -- cleanliness is next to Godliness. Another, less known, describes a situation of chaos or bedlam as being zayy al-hammam al-maqtu'a mayyitu -- like a bathhouse with (...)
I have been back to my homeland many times. My first long trip was in 1990 during the Intifada. I went back and applied for my right to a Palestinian ID in 1994, when limited self-rule began in Gaza and Jericho. I have made several short visits (...)